Author Topic: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon 9 (Flight 2) - COTS-1 - Launch Updates - December 8, 2010 (Read 546784 times)

Having followed these events for years and especially on this extra historic and special day of today - congratulations are in order to SpaceX and to Elon for his fundings initially.

It reminds me of watching the early days of the Mercury Redstone launches - especially yesterday when seeing the 'cherry picker' up against Falcon 9.

Then the tense minutes of the entry sequence of waiting and watching for the parachutes to billow out and a splashdown to occur. [OK with Mercury Redstone maybe Atlantic Ocean as opposed to todays Pacific Ocean but the analogy is there.]

Apollo-Phill
Frozen UK

gospacex · « **Reply #726 on:** 12/08/2010 07:29 pm »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 12/08/2010 07:22 pm

Recovery pic via SpaceX PAO:

What did they do to the horizon?! :]

SpacexULA · « **Reply #727 on:** 12/08/2010 07:30 pm »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 12/08/2010 07:22 pm

Recovery pic via SpaceX PAO:

mmmm toasty

Lars_J · « **Reply #728 on:** 12/08/2010 07:30 pm »

Hmm, isn't the press conference supposed to start soon? (in a minute?) My NASA TV feed still shows some ISS training footage.

EDIT: never mind, looks like it is starting soon now.

rdale · « **Reply #729 on:** 12/08/2010 07:31 pm »

Hold tight, your feed must be behind.

joshcryer · « **Reply #730 on:** 12/08/2010 07:31 pm »

News conf.

joncz · « **Reply #731 on:** 12/08/2010 07:31 pm »

Quote from: SpacexULA on 12/08/2010 07:30 pm

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 12/08/2010 07:22 pm
Recovery pic via SpaceX PAO:
mmmm toasty

That'll buff right out.

braddock · « **Reply #732 on:** 12/08/2010 07:31 pm »

Nasa TV public channel now displaying banner for SpaceX news conference

Avron · « **Reply #733 on:** 12/08/2010 07:31 pm »

Quote from: gospacex on 12/08/2010 07:29 pm

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 12/08/2010 07:22 pm
Recovery pic via SpaceX PAO:

What did they do to the horizon?! :]

Its an Ocean.. it does that...

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #734 on:** 12/08/2010 07:32 pm »

Presser next. Will be recorded, so will only add some soundbytes.

telomerase99 · « **Reply #735 on:** 12/08/2010 07:32 pm »

will someone please post link to recovery pics

iamlucky13 · « **Reply #736 on:** 12/08/2010 07:33 pm »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 12/08/2010 07:22 pm

Recovery pic via SpaceX PAO:

Uh oh! They must have bumped into space and some of the black rubbed off on it. It was white when they took off!

Slide on NASA TV announcing press conference about to start

MarsInMyLifetime · « **Reply #737 on:** 12/08/2010 07:35 pm »

Quote from: gospacex on 12/08/2010 07:29 pm

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 12/08/2010 07:22 pm
Recovery pic via SpaceX PAO:

What did they do to the horizon?! :]

I guess you could say, "All swell that ends well."

Lars_J · « **Reply #738 on:** 12/08/2010 07:35 pm »

Here we go! starting now...

Halidon · « **Reply #739 on:** 12/08/2010 07:36 pm »

Not getting audio from NTV